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U.S. Supreme Court Preserves Access to Abortion Pill As Legal Fight Continues

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May. 15 Friday of the Sixth Week of Easter; Opt. Mem. of St. Isidore (USA), Opt. Mem.

The United States celebrates the Optional Memorial of St. Isidore the Farmer (1070-1130). He was a Spanish laborer who worked most of his life as a ploughman for a nobleman who lived near Madrid, Spain. Although working many hours a day, he never failed to attend daily Mass, and spend time praying before the Holy Eucharist. He married a maid-servant, Maria de la Cabeza, who was also canonized a saint. They were always willing to help their neighbors and worked with the poor in the city slums. In 1947, he was proclaimed the Patron of the Catholic Rural Life Conference in the United States.

African Member of Synod Group Did Not Help Draft Homosexuality Text

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Pope Leo’s Welcome Act of Remembrance and Tribute — and Reconciliation

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Why the Ascension Should Astonish Us

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Cardinal Eijk: Same-Sex Synod Report Must Be Forcefully Refuted

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Catholic Film Star Becomes First Christian Chief Minister of Major Indian State

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German Catholic Congress Approves Bondage Group's Booth

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Cardinal Eijk strongly criticizes Synod report on doctrinal issues (National Catholic Register)

In an op-ed article,Cardinal Willem Eijk of Utrecht in the Netherlands strongly criticized the Synod report on doctrinal issues, which included testimonies of men in same-sex marriages.

The report “fundamentally contradicts Catholic moral teaching and thoroughly undermines its application to moral conduct,” said Cardinal Eijk. “It relativizes the Church’s moral doctrine, with consequences that extend far beyond questions of sexuality to the protection of human life itself. This report must be forcefully refuted.”